Urban Political Ecologies and Children's Geographies: Queering Urban Ecologies of Childhood
Urban Political Ecologies and Children's Geographies: Queering Urban Ecologies of Childhood
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DOI：
10.1111/1468-2427.12339
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发表时间：
2016-09
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Laura J. Shillington;Ann Marie F. Murnaghan
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作者：
Laura J. Shillington;Ann Marie F. Murnaghan
本文主要探讨城市中自然与儿童的物质建构与话语建构。虽然自然和儿童的主流表征和理想化依赖于自然/文化和乡村/城市划分的二元逻辑，但在儿童地理中也存在对自然的简化和浪漫化，在城市政治生态中也缺乏儿童及其空间。我们认为，城市中的儿童和自然需要从二元存在模式中移除，并在城市政治生态学和儿童地理学中以更细致入微的方式加以关注。在这方面，我们建议大自然和城市里的孩子都需要被照顾。我们需要问的是，城市空间的生产如何（重新）与自然创造特殊的浪漫和理想化的关系，通过异性恋规范的框架将自然/文化和男性/女性之间的二元关系具体化。本文的目的是将城市政治生态学的批判性自然-社会理论与探索儿童“自然”的儿童地理学工作进行对话，并在此过程中改变儿童与自然之间的关系。通过对酷儿生态学和酷儿童年的研究，我们的目标是提供一个框架来重新思考和酷儿城市中的自然和儿童。
This article focuses on the material and discursive constructions of nature and children in the city. While dominant representations and idealizations of nature and childhood depend on the binary logic of the nature/culture and rural/urban divide, there is also a simplification and romanticization of nature in children's geographies and a lack of children and their spaces in urban political ecology. We argue that children and nature in cities need to be removed from a binary model of being and attended to in more nuanced ways in urban political ecology and children's geographies. In this regard, we suggest that both nature and children in cities need to be queered. We need to ask how the production of urban spaces (re)creates particular romantic and idealized relations with natures that reify the binaries between nature/culture, and male/female through a heteronormative framework. The purpose of this article is to bring the critical nature-society theories of urban political ecology into conversation with work in children's geographies that explores the 'nature' of childhood, and in doing so queer the relationship between children and nature. Drawing on research on queer ecologies, and queered childhoods, we aim to provide a framework to rethink and queer both nature and children in cities.